What was the womans role in the industry from 1760-1830?

Question:I guess that was during th industrial Rev

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The pattern of women's work changed dramatically during the Industrial Revolution. Cottage industries (people making things in their own homes) were replaced by factory production, and a lot of women who had previously worked at home went to work in factories. Women were popular with factory owners because they could be paid less than men and were less likely to make trouble. By the 1820s, New England was full of textile factories where virtually all the workers were women, each making $2 or $3 a week.

Despite long hours and poor pay, many women prefered factory work to domestic service (the main other area of employment for working-class women), because they had a degree of independence that the did not have working as servants.

The big effect that the Industrial Revolution had on domestic life was that the notion of 'seperate spheres' arose. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most people worked in or near their own homes. Businesses were very often family affairs, with wives and children involved in whatever trade the man of the house practiced, and it was not unusual for a widow to continue to run a business after her husband's death. And the work that came to be done in factories was done by women at home prior to industrialisation. And women had been very much involved in production, of foodstuffs and clothing and other household items, but now these things were being mass-produced in factories.

The total seperation of home and workplace meant that woman's role in the home came to be seen as purely supportive rather than economic. Women were supposed to confine themselves to the domestic sphere, look after the home and children, while the man went out to work, instead of, as in previous centuries, work being a part of family life. Many poor married women of course still had to work, but the ideal was of the woman at home while the man was out in the world of business.

It also meant that housework became a much more important part of a woman's life. No longer involved in production, or making the necessities of life, women at home concentrated more on cleaning and beautifying their homes. The man meanwhile was out in the seperate, masculine world of business.

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